WASHINGTON - The presidential campaigns of Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump know what they want to talk about in their high-stakes television debate next month, and now they're trying to convince news network CNN to play ball.
Each campaign team, not surprisingly, has picked topics they think play to the candidates' own perceived areas of strength in the debate and signaled them publicly, including to the network. The commission was created in 1987 to settle differences between the two major political parties in a bipartisan forum. Some previous debates had been organized by the League of Women Voters, a civic group, but the Democratic and Republican Parties wanted more control.
Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the commission, said networks previously avoided sponsoring their own debates because of the conflicts between staging a news event and covering it, as well as the headache of creating a fair forum amid lobbying from both sides.Moderators for prior debates run by the commission disclosed broad themes in advance, but so far there's no sign that CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, plan to do so.
Trump said in a radio interview last week that the candidates would be seated during the debate, to his chagrin, at the request of the Biden campaign. A Biden adviser said that is not true.
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